Complaints about Facebook’s privacy practices and policies have been building toward a new crescendo, with growing interest on the part of Congress and regulators, as well as a budding viral movement to quit the network. In an effort to cut through the din, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to address his company’s attitude toward consumer privacy head-on in an editorial in The Washington Post. He gets it, Zuckerberg wrote. He promised that Facebook is developing new privacy controls “that are much simpler to use.”
As long as Facebook relies on advertisers for income and those advertisers demand information from users. I do not think Zucker will really change anything. He may make it look as though Facebook is installing better privacy changes. But in the end a social network reliant on outside advertising is a recipe for personal information to find its way around.
I have deleted my profiles at Facebook, MySpace, and a few other so-called "social" sites. The only reason Zuckerberg is doing what he's doing is to make money for himself. And if he can do it by compromising the security of those who make him money, he'll do it. He's backstepping now because he sees consumer backlash to his privacy policies. But I honestly don't think he'll backstep from the policies themselves. He'll only try to be more clever in how he implements them.
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Privacy Advocates: Facebook Has Fooled Us Once Too Often
Posted by: Erika Morphy May 24, 2010 12:24 PMComplaints about Facebook’s privacy practices and policies have been building toward a new crescendo, with growing interest on the part of Congress and regulators, as well as a budding viral movement to quit the network. In an effort to cut through the din, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to address his company’s attitude toward consumer privacy head-on in an editorial in The Washington Post. He gets it, Zuckerberg wrote. He promised that Facebook is developing new privacy controls “that are much simpler to use.”